The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (The Fellowship of the Ring / The Two Towers / The Return of the King Extended Editions) [Blu-ray] (2012)
looks to be region free ?
Region: All Regions
.. looks to be a decent price
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…. bought
quite alot of subtitle options too…Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish
I'm thinking it's not worth the effort for me to go and learn all those languages just to benefit from this feature. Hmmm…
What?! There's a debate over that? I thought most people would agree that Extended version is way better and Theatrical version just left out too many scenes (despite being 3 hours/movie already).
I'm in the boat that prefers the theatrical. I feel only a small portion of the 'extended edition' content really needed to be in the original, and that the films hold up fine without the rest for the most part. The rest is nice from a lore perspective, but as far as the films go most of what was left out was content they could get away without.
That said, I own and enjoy both versions and which one I watch would be largely determined by how long I feel like spending on the couch.
Like a boss!
I am with you, The extended version is way better, I dont know anyone who prefers the theatrical version except for friends who just arent into fantasy or the books or the movies anyway and hence prefer a shorter movie to a longer one. As it is even with the extended edition, a lot had to be left out in order to fit it all in. Hence why I believe hobbit is going to be mutli part.
Damnit. I bought this for $80 from JB HI-Fi's 'sale' last week. How do you know it's region free?
Region: All Regions
What about the DVD's?
Region 1 only I believe (Australia is Region 4) and in NTSC output (Australia is PAL), so all your equipment will need to be able to handle it. No NTSC vs PAL issues with Blu-Rays.
I bought it a few days ago. Feels bad :(
I sort of agree with the thousands of one star reviews of this product.
Give me the Extended Editions with the option to watch the Theatrical. It's not hard. There isn't a space issue. It's kind of an evil move.
The reviews are almost all for the theatrical version if you look at them. That being said, it would be a nice feature to be able to watch either cut (I don't know if bluray spec would allow it - the requirement for the theatrical cut to skip past parts might cause lag while watching it or something), but I can't imagine ever choosing to watch the theatrical version anyway.
The Aliens BD can do either, I can't imagine why LOTR couldn't.
It's probably the fact that the movie stretches across 2 disks. If (and I am highly speculating) they organized the chapters properly you could sequence the theatrical version out of it, but this would still be impossible across 2 disks.
Aliens special edition runtime is 154 mins, Fellowship of the Ring special extended runs 228 minutes or 74 minutes longer.
As much as I hate split movies (it reminds me of the early days of DVD when there were no dual-layer discs. One of my favbourite movies, The Right Stuff, was a "flippy-disc"… you watched the first half and turned it over to watch the rest) I want the highest quality blu-ray and cramming LOTR extended editions onto a single disc would stop me buying it.
So, wait, you guys are saying that because the theatrical edition would be spanned across two discs in the exact same way the product you're buying is, it's not worth including?
Im just speculating. Having only one option across 2 discs or 2 options on 1 disc is straight forward, having 2 options across 2 discs allows 4 permutations that end users may traverse. Too much of an unexpected journey perhaps?
The extended editions actually have far, far more options than that. There are 4 audio commentary tracks on the EEs.
It's already slightly complicated. On the DVD when you put the second disc in you get a page where you can simply continue, or choose options like the commentaries/languages. All you'd have to do is add a single "Play Theatrical" to disc 1 and a "Continue Theatrical" to disc 2. That's it. What else do you think they'd have to do?
Yeah, it seems perfectly possible to me, and I'm not sure whether the disk swap would be an issue at all. A menu when you insert the second disc would do it fine and not really provide much more interruption than one gets having just seen a "please swap disc" screen.
It'd only potentially be an issue if the scenes were reorganised, in which case it might get more difficult and duplicating some scenes across the disc may lead to capacity issues.
No point in being to obsessed with any franchise even though one may really enjoy it. Big companies will still make moves like this to milk the masses (sell non extended version first then release extended).
If you must own it straight away, you will pay for it. In this case, good things come to those who wait. Other things, carpe diem, but not this.
I think you'll be waiting a while for a combined version. The DVD editions have been out for what, 7 years?
Nah all the young people don't say carpe diem anymore, it's YOLO now for some f'd up reason….so sad
Still waiting on LOTR in 3D. HELLO ARWEN!
the hobbit, peter jackson wouldn't post convert… i dont think
The extended films have much better PQ and sound quality than the theatrical versions! Something to consider.
Yes, but only the first movie is a remaster. And it also introduced a green tint.
That's a bargain for this set! The DVDs contain all the extras in R1. EE is the way to go imho especially for the final film.
I order last time it was low on the US store (Nov 15th - delivery Dec 4th) and still haven't received it. Don't count on it being here for Christmas.
The US Amazon store started using MSI for international orders, and they're incredibly slow.
Yep, your right got them on online chat and they advised it is delay'd, can't be specific but might not arrive until Jan 4th.
They offered a refund (as this was to be an xmas gift) but in the end I said I would keep it - and they gave me back the shipping costs ~$6. So pretty happy with that…. though now I have to re strategise for xmas.
Thanks, was waiting for this to go down in price.
Is there any truth to the rumour that the special effects in these films look terrible on Bluray? By that I mean the CGI elements look blocky and obvious at 1080p?
Apparently the bonus DVDs are region 1. Had to cancel my order.
That is usually the case with USA DVDs, but worth cancelling for….really?
Well, 9/15 discs won't work for me, so it seems like a fair reason to cancel.
I rkn this might get even cheaper, especially with xmas coming and the hobbit coming out soon. Don't know if I should hold out or not!!!
Yeah i'm holding out, I want this in my collection eventually but i'm not in a hurry to watch them and they will inevitably come down further like all the others.
Purchased it, as I sold the old dvd extended editions on ebay a while ago, intending to upgrade to blu.
Thanks OP!
ps: be sure to not use the Amazon currency converter, as it skims $2-3 off your order in the conversion… which is fine if your visa card charges a premium to convert, but most don't.
going to keep my DVD packs as I think they are better packages and not just plastic covers.
Price gone back up to $55.99 :-(
No it hasn't… I tried just that second… AUS$45.45 or US$45.97 shipped - given the exchange rate, US is cheaper!
Bought! Thanks =)
bought this exact set when it was on sale about a month ago on amazon, can confirm that both blu rays and dvds are region free. they play perfectly well on my region 4 sony blu ray player and when i changed the region on my LG dvd player the dvds were able to play on region 1,3,4 (not region 2 but doesn't matter). Plus they come in black cases instead of the usual blue ones which look quite nice!
Also, my estimated delivery date was Dec 6 and it came that exact day. Shipped by MSI
Are you sure? Plenty of reviews say the DVDs are region 1 only :/.
labeled region 1 but plays on my region 4 player so take that as you will i guess
Many players bought in Australia are multi-region, despite what the box or the sales guy says. When my set arrives, I'll test the dvd to see what region it really is… there's a utility called discinfo which reports on dvd regions amongst other things.
My sister recently bought a Samsung blu-ray player which was DVD region locked out of the box. She needed to use an unlock code found on the internet.
I'm waiting for the version where gollum pushes that little selfish prick frodo into the lava instead.
Bought it.
Awesome Deal! Thanks!
comes up at $60 at checkout now
lowest price ever on CCC
very tempting